Venice Week-end: The Perfect Escape to Experience Venetian Culture and Cuisine! Start your weekend at "Trattoria Ca d’Oro Alla Vedova" with delicious Spaghetti alle Vongole and famous meatballs with polenta, capturing the essence of traditional Venetian fare. After your meal, enjoy a stroll to Campo San Fantin, where you'll find a charming 17th-century pharmacy and "The Merchant of Venice", offering exquisite perfumes inspired by historic trade routes. Don’t miss "Piedàterre" by the Rialto Bridge for handmade Venetian slippers or "Rigattieri Ceramics" for unique food-shaped ceramics to take home.
Where to stay?
Venice Venice Hotel
Get the celebrity treatment with world-class service at The Venice Venice Hotel. Facing the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, an enchanting vision—a post-venetian dream—revives the extraordinary charm of Palazzo Ca’ da Mosto and its innate calling for hospitality. Located within the city’s historic centre, this hotel with international allure rediscovers Venice’s avant-garde spirit and restores Palazzo Ca’ da Mosto to its former glory. Inside the hotel, remarkable artistic contributions transform the most evocative spaces of the ancient palace into true site-specific works of art. The rooms offer unparalleled views and lofty ceilings, embodying an original and distinctly contemporary Venetian style. Architecture, fashion, art, and design come together to narrate the history of the most influential international avant-garde movements of the last century. The Venice Venice Hotel features a fitness centre, terrace, a restaurant and bar in Venice. With free WiFi, this 5-star hotel offers room service and a 24-hour front desk.
Violino d'Oro
Violino d'Oro Venezia is an 18th-century building with decorated rooms, overlooking the San Moisè Canal. Saint Mark’s Square is less than 2 minutes’ walk away.
Interiors at Violino d’Oro Hotel feature exposed wooden beams and crystal chandeliers ancient art and contemporary design. The rooms come with air conditioning, a satellite flat-screen TV, and a private bathroom complete with bathrobes and slippers. The restaurant offers a rich homemade breakfast and traditional Venetian cuisine with a creative touch in a romantic setting. Iconic cocktails and cicchetti at Il Piccolo Bar for a gondola view aperitivo.
Where to eat?
Osteria Ca'Oro alla Vedova
Another must-try classic is the Trattoria Ca d’Oro Alla Vedova. Cà D'Oro alla Vedova is a recommended authentic restaurant in Venice, Italy, famous for Bigoli in salsa, Fegato alla Veneziana, Sarde in saor, and their delicious Spaghetti alle Vongole (clam spaghetti) and their renowned meatballs with polenta.
Ostaria Da Rioba
For a creative and contemporary twist on tradition, the place to visit is Ostaria Da Rioba. It is situated in a quiet area, yet it is conveniently close to several points of interest in the most picturesque fondamenta of Venice. During the summer, you can enjoy beautiful sunsets while dining at tables along the canal. The restaurant is just a 20-minute walk from San Marco, 15 minutes from Piazzale Roma and Rialto, and 10 minutes from the train station. They offer typical Venetian cuisine with meat and fish (fresh from the fish market every morning) dishes using only fresh seasonal ingredients, homemade pasta and desserts.
Where to shop?
The Merchant of Venice Profumeria - Campo San Fantin, 1895
Located in Campo San Fantin, directly in front of the Teatro La Fenice, is an ancient 17th-century pharmacy that serves as the exclusive store for The Merchant of Venice. This brand, created by the Vidal family, offers a variety of high-end perfumes, featuring exquisitely refined fragrances inspired by the spices that once entered Venice through the Mude trade routes during the time of the Serenissima. Each perfume, presented in vibrant, multi-colored glass bottles, tells stories of ancient sea voyages and the enchanting, distant East.
Piedàterre Venezia - S. Polo
Today, these shoes come in a wide range of colors and fabrics at Piedàterre, located at the foot of the Rialto Bridge, where they are traditionally produced. The soles are crafted from recycled materials and attached using bicycle tires. Skilled artisans use a blanket stitch to assemble the shoes, highlighting refined craftsmanship.
Piedàterre is the original Venetian slipper specialist, known for our handmade ‘Friulane’ velvet shoes, embodying decades of Italian ingenuity. Each pair is still crafted by local artisans, making them icons of la dolce vita. The traditional Venetian slipper originated in the 19th century in Friuli, where families repurposed velvet curtains and bicycle tires to create innovative footwear.
A popular choice is the customizable velvet variety, particularly those hand-decorated by Marisa Convento.
Rigattieri Ceramics - San Marco
Rigattieri is well-known for its collection of ceramics from Nove, a small Venetian town located along the river Brenta. This town boasts an artistic ceramics factory that has been in operation since 1685 and is internationally recognized for its exceptional Italian ceramics. However, the store in Venice takes a unique approach by specializing exclusively in one category of ceramics: food-shaped objects.
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